Elements of Shakespearean Comedy in Midsummer Night's Dream activity
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MARRIAGE OR REUNION
COMEDIC LANGUAGE
LOVE OBSTACLES
I bequeath my daughter to Demetrius!
In the end, Helena marries Demetrius, Hermia marries Lysander, and the Duke marries Hippolyta.
"When I did him at this advantage take, an ass’s noll I fixed on his head. Anon his Thisbe must be answered, and forth my [mimic] comes. When they him spy, as wild geese that the creeping fowler eye, or russet-pated choughs, many in sort, rising and cawing at the gun’s report, sever themselves and madly sweep the sky..."
Hermia's father tells her she must be with Demetrius even though she loves Lysander!
PLOT TWISTS
ELEMENTS OF COMEDY IN "A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM"
MISTAKEN IDENTITIES
Hermia and Helena are split by jealousy. The men want to fight over someone neither of them loves. Titania is fooled by her own kind. But, it all works out in the end.
Puck mistakes Lysander for Demetrius, and Titania mistakes Bottom for a person (even though he looks like a donkey)